Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

by Malcolm Gladwell

How your doctor treats you, in many cases, has less to do with where your doctor was trained, or how well he or she did in medical school, or what kind of personality your doctor has, than with where your doctor lives.

But now every cheetah represented the exact same kind of magnificence.

I talk about the skin graft experiment all the time when talking about breeding in human care

Epidemics love monocultures. But so do we. Sometimes, in fact, we go out of our way to create them—even though in doing so we put our own children at risk.

In medicine there is a term for the kind of illness that is caused by the intervention of doctors: iatrogenesis.